A guided-missile destroyer (DDG) is a destroyer whose primary armament is guided missiles so they can provide anti-aircraft warfare screening for the fleet.

Mar 4, 2025 · The DDG 51-class guided missile destroyers are warships that provide multi-mission offensive and defensive capabilities. Destroyers can operate independently or as part of Carrier Strike...

Jul 16, 2025 · The Navy’s DDG (X) program envisages procuring a class of next-generation guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) to replace the Navy’s Ticonderoga (CG-47) class Aegis cruisers and older …

Nov 3, 2025 · Guided Missile Destroyers are multi-mission, anti-air warfare (AAW), anti-submarine (ASW), strike (STK), Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) and anti-surface warfare (ASUW) combatants …

The US Navy’s first guided missile destroyer, DDG 1, was not a purpose-built ship but the Gearing -class Gyatt, on which a missile launcher was installed in place of the after 5-inch/38 twin mount in 1956.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers or DDG 51-class were developed for the US Navy to provide multi-mission offensive and defensive capabilities. USS Arleigh Burke, the first warship in the …

Ingalls is currently building Flight III enhanced Arleigh Burke Guided Missile Destroyers. Additionally, Ingalls will be completing modernization work on all three Zumwalt -class destroyers.

Ticonderoga -class cruiser ... The Ticonderoga class of guided-missile cruisers is a class of warships of the United States Navy, first ordered and authorized in the 1978 fiscal year. It was originally planned …

Guided missile destroyers are multi-mission [Anti-Air Warfare (AAW), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), and Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW)] surface combatants. The destroyer's armament has greatly...

Guided missile destroyers are fast warships that help safeguard larger ships by operating in support of carrier battle groups, surface action groups, amphibious groups and replenishment groups.